Doocot, Cumstoun House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Dovecot.
Doocot, Cumstoun House
- WRENN ID
- young-minaret-finch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- Dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NX 681 533
- Coordinates
- 54.85795, -4.05542
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Doocot at Cumstoun House is a stone-built dovecot from the mid-19th century, featuring a single-storey range of byres. Constructed from rubble with granite quoins and margins, the dovecot is rectangular and two-storey, while the byre is a long single-storey structure. It appears that the dovecot was raised from a single storey. The byre has ornamental casement windows with diamond-pane glazing. Notable architectural features include deeply overhanging timber eaves, slate piended roofs, and a pitched roof on the byre with a sandstone ridge.
Local climate
Doocot, Cumstoun House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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